I collected the next two quotes and picked the tittle for this post several months ago.  As I flesh the piece out it has taken a somewhat different direction.  It is not obvious to me why I should leave these quotes on this article and not move them to a new one and yet, I think they and the title belong here.  Pardon my incongruous words and enjoy it anyway.

“God speaks to all of us every hour, if we will only listen.”
–George Washington Carver

Dr. Carver made that statement when asked why he didn’t patent many of his inventions.

Trust yourself – And you won’t be disappointed when vain people let you down.
–Bob Dylan

Do you believe enough in yourself to make a decision and press on?  Do you value yourself that much?  Society teaches us to always trust others and that is important but the lessons that say: trust yourself – where are they?

Learning to trust yourself is like waking up to the truth.

Fear and uncertainty, if they are pervasive in your life, are simply a lack of trust, a lack of faith in yourself.  Taking it further, if you have religious convictions, they are a lack of faith in God (however you perceive God).

You can restore faith and eliminate fear by seeing your outcome.  See the end from the beginning (as Denis Waitley so elegantly puts it), see the end and know that you have overcome that problem that may seem to have you down right now.  See the end and when you are discouraged buck yourself up with it.

Science tells us that the body experiences the same sensations from an imaginary vision as from the same thing happening in reality.  This is why Olympic and other athletes are taught to visualize success – to see the end from the beginning.  This causes several things to happen…

First there is real training that happens in the body.  Basketball players who see themselves making the shots improve about the same amount as those who actually do the physical practice.  Second because this instills belief inside – when problems and situations come up, when obstacles are in your path you are more likely to have the conviction to continue, to look for other ways to the same end than if you just come up against it and have no expectation of success.  And third, if you believe (or even if you don’t believe) the law of attraction kicks in and helps you attract that outcome.

So there it is: trust yourself, see the end from the beginning, and keep moving in the direction of your dreams always trusting that the answer for that next challenge is there.

About Denis  Waitley And How I Came To Know His Work: I had discovered Napoleon Hill and Robert Collier in the late ’60s, Maxwell Maltz and Earl Nightingale in the early ’70s but while I was intrigued by the information it took “The Psychology of Winning” by Denis Waitley (mid ’80s) to put it in a form that made sense to me.  He put it in a more useful form – I must have listened to his tapes 100′s of times.  I hear Dr. Waitley’s quotes all the time in my head now.

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